According to The Kyiv Independent, the outage affected Ukrainian troops who rely on Starlink terminals, citing a Telegram message from the military saying Starlink is down across the entire front. The military now says its connections are back online after going down for about 150 minutes, “the longest in the war.”

Since Thursday's outage, a few Starlink users have reported faster speeds, raising speculation that the outage happened while SpaceX was trying to upgrade its network.

Starlink, Elon Musk's potent satellite internet system experienced a rare hiccup on Thursday, July 24, 2025, when tens of thousands of users were taken offline due to an internal software malfunction, causing one of SpaceX undertaking's largest worldwide outages.